> >
> What version of Wine are you using? If it's not the latest, upgrade.
> $ rpm -q wine
> wine-1.1.12-1.fc10.i386
Upgrade to 1.1.13; 1.1.12 had a lot of problems.
> installing, set an override for riched20. There is no need for
> winetricks; Office installs its own riched20.
> OK, but winetricks makes the process that much less painful...
All you have to do is run winecfg and select riched20 from the drop-down list on the Libraries tab. As I said, there's nothing to actually install.
> I'll try this re your comments Bug 11415 and James' comments, comments:
> cd "/media/Office 2003 Pro/OFFICE";\
> # Set your preferences
> WINEPREFIX=~/.MSOffice winecfg;\
> # Click through the dialogues
> WINEPREFIX=~/.MSOffice winetricks vb6run riched20 dcom98 gecko;\
> touch ~/.MSOffice/drive_c/windows/system32/stdole2.tlb;\
> # Enter Pass-Key
> WINEPREFIX=~/.MSOffice wine SETUP.EXE;\
> done
>> If touch ~/.MSOffice/drive_c/windows/system32/stdole2.tlb isn't
> sufficient, where can I find a real one?
Touch worked for me, but if you're installing dcom98 (why?), it's not necessary, as dcom98 installs a real copy of stdole2.tlb. I didn't install either dcom98 or vb6run.